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Last year, after scouring the globe for the organizations and individuals working to harness the power of innovation on behalf of poor and vulnerable populations, we were thrilled to announce …

Last Thursday, Rebuild by Design’s ten teams presented their final Design Proposals to build resilience in communities across the Sandy-affected region. The proposals are as ambitious as they are innovative, …

In 1958, a little-known community activist named Jane Jacobs received a Rockefeller Foundation grant to expand upon her ideas about how a city should look, feel, and work. The book …

South Africa—along with the rest of the Sub-Saharan Africa—is still less urbanized than most other parts of the world. However, the region’s rate of urbanization is the highest in the …

A version of this post also appeared on 100 Resilient Cities. Patrick Otellini has a background in public policy, but has spent the last decade in the private sector dealing with …

Approximately one-third of food grown across the world never reaches the plates of consumers. The significant amount of food waste and spoilage occurring across the value chain threatens farmers’ livelihoods; …

This Valentine’s day, The Rockefeller Foundation’s Nairobi office showed love a little differently. Staff members took part in launching Kenya’s first Mobile Blood Unit, which aims to increase the availability of …

Microsoft and The Rockefeller Foundation recently co-convened over 30 global industry experts in Johannesburg, South Africa to discuss the future of impact sourcing. This was a follow-up meeting from the …

This post originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal. In January, India celebrated three years without a single case of polio. On March 27, the country is officially certified polio-free. That landmark achievement is now prompting …

A version of this post originally appeared in The South China Morning Post. Asia is witnessing a multitude of catastrophic climate-related disasters, with many lives lost and billions of dollars of …